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- From: someone@Texaco.com (Larry D. Pyeatt)
- Subject: Re: Biblical Inerrancy?
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:44:49 GMT
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- In article <1ebi8eINNhc@gap.caltech.edu>, kanga.caltech.edu!magney (Michael Agney) writes:
- |>
- |> Yeah, but I'm sure someone can come up with an error so great that
- |> claiming it's an idiom would be ridiculous. Carl?
-
- Excuse me for butting in. Look at the two chronicles about the lost tribes,
- each story tells exactly how many persons of each family were wandering in the
- desert. I don't remember the chapers and verses off hand, and seem to have
- forgotten to bring my bible today, ;^) but anyway,
- the numbers do not match. That is an error which is not attributable
- to idiom.
-
- You may also note that there are two totally separate and inconsistent
- stories of the birth of Christ. Either one is true or the other is true,
- or neither is true, but they cannot _both_ be true. You may try to claim
- that the error is an idiom, but I am not willing to twist my mind that
- much.
-
- I can come up with several more gross errors, if anyone is interested.
-
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